MH-257 Sleeper - Behind Every MaskSleeper’s latest instrumental release, Behind Every Mask, is a tour de force of digital intrigue, all thick percussion bombs and mysterious electronic pranks showcasing creativity on full tilt. Bypassing most of the stock studio tools of his trade, he has constructed the album using personally modified electronics, sound generators, and effects units, and even turned a dot matrix printer into a drum machine. A light snare might appear amidst juggernauts of hissing, lo-fi samples while patches of sonic luminance amidst the grainy din to keep you guessing. More meditative than maudlin, Behind Every Mask is simply further proof that Sleeper can weld mood and music with the best of them.

Tracklist

01. Abdomen

02. 9th Grade

03. Witch Hunt

04. Mr. Megatron

05. Condition Or Effect

06. Open

07. Faulty

08. Nothing New

09. Insult Groove

10. White Sky

11. Frequency Winds

12. Gone

13. And You

14. Kartoon

15. B.F.U.

16. Failure To Communicate

Release Details

Release Date: 02/17/2009

Running Time: 61:22

Download/Available/$7.00

CD/Available/$10.00

LOSSLESS/Available/$10.00

Territory: World

Reviews Summary

Another impressive new producer helping push the parameters of hip-hop outward to the creative extremes - Boomkat / Warm, organic and lively - Spacelab / Sleeper strayed from the music herd long ago. It is now everyone else’s challenge to go find him - Larryville

In what has to be the most ironic of names, Sleeper is anything but. Full-fledged electronics that avoid all of the trappings of what we hate when we hate on electronic music: cold, lifeless and regimented is supplanted with warm, organic and lively.

Check out the track Condition or Effect from the upcoming album Behind Every Mask. It seethes its way through from beginning to end, lurching through a grainy, rhythmic call to arms. The album will be released on February 17th, 2009.

The soundbite that starts the song says it all. "I think the drum machine was one of the worst inventions of the twentieth century," in a forecasting of the Sleeper manifesto. Instead of relying on pre-formulated tracks and canned sounds, he innovates instruments and sounds of his own," reads the description from his label. - Spacelab